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A Note on the Generic Name of the Spirochaete of Syphilis (Treponema pallidum Schaudinn, 1905)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Clifford Dobell
Clifford Dobell
Affiliation:
National Institute for Medical Research, London, N.W.3
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In a note which I contributed in 1918 to Special Report, No. 19 of the Medical Research Council, I attempted to show that the “correct” generic name of the spirochaete of syphilis—according to the Rules of Nomenclature—is Spironema Vuillemin, 1905. The premisses from which this conclusion was drawn were briefly set out in the publication cited, and need not be repeated here: but my argument—put very shortly—was that, since the Spirochaetes are Bacteria, and not Protozoa, their nomenclature must be determined by the Botanical Rules, not those of Zoology; and that of the three generic names proposed for the spirochaete of syphilis in 1905, Spironema has priority, and must therefore be accepted. (Spironema was proposed by Vuillemin in June, Treponema by Schaudinn in October, and Microspironema by Stiles and Pfender in December, 1905.)

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 1926 , pp. 368 - 369
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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